SEOmoz today released the industry crowd-sourced SEO ranking factors for 2011. To do this SEOmoz surveyed 134 SEO professionals (including a couple of my close friends) on what which particular factors have the greatest effect on search rankings. SEO professionals are also invited to collate their thoughts on where they think the industry is heading. 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Versus 2009′s SEO Ranking Factors: The key take...

An interesting pickup from TechCrunch reveals that Google’s new Instant Search can actually favour brands over non branded terms. Instant search allows users to see query results without having to press search. Below you’ll see that when the user begins to type God, Google begins to show both paid and organic results. However, instead of showing results for God, it actually shows GoDaddy, the domain registrar. Why would Google do...

Google Realtime Search engables users to see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics around the world in an instant! Check out Google Realtime Search Google Realtime Search Enables you to: Search faster - Get results directly on the new Realtime homepage Refine results – Pinpoint results by location, time, and more See entire conversations – Read full threads of conversations to get...

Nowadays, it’s pretty hard to search Google without being displayed a blended result. Blended search is great as it allows users to find information across several types of media, such as Video, Images, Twitter feeds etc. Today, when performing the search”Facebook Places“, I noticed a pretty busy blended SERP with news results, Twitter feed & to my astonishment I also noticed the new “Google Trends” widget at...